That's what this game is all about. Normal tv replaced by HD TV replaced by 3D TV. They're shortening the upgrade time with each cycle, and people are happy to pay it. I'm currently still using a CRT with a scart cable - and while I would be upgrading in the near future, I suppose I'll have to wait until I see how this pans out.
I would at least have expected them to wait until 3D TVs have been slurped up - this connector change will disrupt the cydle and hurt sales.
On the other hand, I truly wish that this was all genuine. LAN sockets in the walls to pass my AV anywhere in the house is, in my opinion, about the perfect future situation, but something tells me that it'll not work here. And what an opportunity to drop drm - except that, with Sony on board, that'll never happen.
It'd be so easy for them to do this right and have it settled for the next 50 years, as all equipment could be made backwards compatible, but I seriously doubt this'll break the 3 year mark. Everyone's locked into HDMI with their AV receivers.
they didn't know what they wanted or needed, and it certainly wasn't our job to figure it out.
Erm, as far as I'm concerned, that's exactly your job. Its what a requirements capture is for. I feel quite offended by this attitude of yours - you're the expert. If I went to an architect and asked for a floating house, it would be his job to tell me that that's not what I really want, and to work with me on something more appropriate, rather taking the money and running away before my wife gets home.
I hope you enjoyed the coke you snorted off hooker's cracks with my tax money.
This is quite clearly a sales pitch - am I the only reader left thinking, 'well so what'?
Its all well and good keeping old computers running (providing the OS is secure enough), but I for one feel that this is neither news for nerds, nor stuff that matters.
And I'm not even clicking the link to vindicate the posting, click-through-wise.
Agreed - if nothing else, I was actually expecting images of the fonts - isn't that the most sensible approach?
Loading the page and being auto redirected to the download page is a terrible way for the submitter to give us a 'peek'.
This may seem obvious to some, but I spent an hour or so looking into this phone as my next upgrade last week. It uses CDMA, which is new to me (as a UK consumer), which means that it has no sim card, and instead the phone itself logs onto your network provider - as such, you have no way of importing and using it. There are no stated plans to bring it across the pond:O(
Which is a shame, as it blows the current android crop available in the UK out of the water.
Tons of ISPs already do this. Is there something new here that I'm missing, or it is actually just a flat fee for what you're allowed, and a price per Gb for what you're not allowed?
Hell, I live in the UK and was hit by this (HARD) by two ISPs before I moved to VirginMedia, who just throttle me between 4pm and 11pm, but let me download what I want (I've hit over 500Gb this month after a failed RAID array).
Google is just better at this game. I find Bing a hinderance to smooth workflow.
Oft-times I'll know exactly what I'm looking for, or even the exact site I want to go to, and going via google is often faster than remembering/typing a URL. I know my search result will be top, as I know what to search for. This is far more hit and miss with Bing.
This does change over time, however. It used to be the case that if I wanted a review on a new pair of speakers or a motherboard or whatnot, I could google the product with the word review in the search, such as "b&w 683 review". Whilst for that particular search you'll find some good reviews do pop up first, for a lot of products its an ordeal trying to find decent reviews. Often it'll be a sales page where you can drop your own review, and more often that not they're blank. Its becoming more and more difficult to search for professional reviews, so for many products I go direct to specialist review sites, such as tomshardware for computer stuff.
I seem to have run a little off topic, but my point is that all of this is far more difficult to accomplish with Bing than it is with google, so I'm not surprised they're losing money - they've entered a marketplace with an inferior product (at least for the casual home user), and that's rarely a profitable move.
I mean, you use the site to search for the desired torrent, and then click to download the.torrent file - it would be easy to host the.torrent files on a separate server, seperate site, or by a separate company altogether.
I'm on virgin, 10Mb plan (downloading hundreds of gigs per month). I could get faster, but to be honest I don't think it'd do much good. I suppose I generally wait about 30mins for a movie to download, and that could be 3 minutes @ 100Mbps, but what the hay. Anything that's time critical is with me quickly enough, as its usually small, so I haven't upgraded. 100Mbps would be nice, but not if it's expensive.
As to complaints about the service, you should move to my area. On the 10Mbps plan, my ftp runs at 1.2MB/s for the majority of the time. If you get a calculator out, I think you'll find that that's pretty much what they're advertising. It typically drops to 300KB/s between the hours of 4pm and 9pm, but that's in their ToS, and I max the throttle at all other times, near enough.
All in all I would say that Virgin give me exactly what I pay for, and their customer service (while outsourced to india) is actually surprisingly good.
I read a very good article last night, seems like its right up your street: here.
Its a comparison of different streaming options in a house that's not wired up to your specifications. Page 8 shows that with coax you should be able to get 68Mbps streaming video via UDP, which should be more than sufficient for your streaming needs. The only thing is that you'll have to buy a coax/ethernet adaptor. Not cheap, but a whole lot easier than rewiring.
Okay sorry for the double post, but can someone tell me how to format my posts properly? I can't find any ttips, and they all look like that beast ^^^:O(
I couldn't agree more. I'm into the current BloodBowl computer game they released in June for the PC, and over the past couple of months have seen them issue takedown notices to various bloodbowl fan websites. While obviously this isn't a great thing, I grudgingly have to support what they're doing - stopping people using their trademark, BloodBowl. As the takedown notice says, if they have a history of ignoring their trademark's infringement, than when it really _does_ matter, they don't have a legal leg to stand on.
Here's the takedown for talkbloodbowl.com (and fumbbl just had a similar one):
"Thank you for your email concerning the website www.talkbloodbowl.com.
We understand that you are unhappy about the decision by the people running www.talkbloodbowl.com to shut their site down. The Blood Bowl community is important to Games Workshop and we are also disappointed that they have felt it necessary to take such a step. Unfortunately, that decision is entirely one for them and we can have no influence over what action they choose to take.
Unlike many companies, Games Workshop usually only stops people from using our intellectual property if we must do so in order to protect it (provided that use is by and for hobbyists). For example, the law requires us to protect our trademarks in certain ways – and if we do not – we might lose them. As you can imagine, we do not want to lose our trademarks as we would no longer be able to create the great miniatures and table top hobby wargames that we pride ourselves on.
‘Blood Bowl’ is a trademark that belongs to Games Workshop. Therefore the use of it by third parties, without licence, is unlawful and an infringement of Games Workshop’s rights.
Guidance has been available for our fans for many years in our Intellectual Property Policy that can be found on the legal pages of our website http://legal.games-workshop.com/ This sets out how our hobbyists can use our intellectual property in such a way that Games Workshop is not likely to object. Within the policy there are some simple rules, such as:
1) Do not mention any Games Workshop Trademarks, such as “Blood Bowl” or “Warhammer” in your URL or league name; and
2) Do not screenscrape any content from official websites.
There are also a number of more general guidelines, setting out the spirit of the policy. If a fan follows the policy in spirit and letter, then it is highly unlikely that Games Workshop will take any action to prevent their use of Games Workshop’s IP.
Games Workshop has not specifically targeted any particular website but instead has taken a consistent approach to all sites that we are aware of that are using our ‘Blood Bowl’ trademark without our permission.
We have written to the owners or administrators of these sites detailing our concerns. In our letters, we gave the parties infringing our rights various options as to how they could address our concerns. At no time did Games Workshop demand that any website close down.
We trust that this clarifies the situation."
I like this, and see pressure sensitive keyboards being predominant in the not too distant future, based primarily upon the supplemental embedded video at the bottom of the linked page. All of the proposed uses, from deleting word at a time, to recognising typos, to movement in games, I can't see any argument against. Its just a genuinely innovative device.
A lot of the competition entries are rather useless as they stand, but go a long way to show the potential of the platform. One problem I've always had with PC gaming is not being able to play driving games properly without a controller, as on/off left/right is useless. I suppose this would solve that problem, as I'd now have an analogue keyboard.
As to the typing/password recognition, of course it would have teething problems en route to full user acceptance, but all of the criticism levelled so far is easily surmountable. Someone loses a hand, or their typing changes - easy! As per online banking and whatnot, the user can answer a few predefined questions (independent of typing style) and reset the memory. A brute force attack could be prevented by limiting the number of attempts.
Okay, so a couple of problems would always be present, such as typing with a coffee in hand or logging in to your girlfriends facebook, but overall I am thrilled by the idea, enough to make my second/. post ever, and am very much looking forward to owning one, providing they don't come with optimus maximus pricetags.
You can take The Open University in britain as an example of why I don't believe this is ever going to work.
"The Open University is the distance learning university founded and funded by the UK Government."
So, you would imagine a degree from here carries at least some weight in academics and business, but unfortunately that's not the case. Perhaps not so bad as the example of University of Phoenix above, as some professional bodies do accept their legitimacy, it is a sad fact that OU degrees are sneered upon in britain today. This is likely due to the high percentage of students who sit courses "for personal interest", i.e. for fun, instead of as part of their professional career. As such, I imagine the drop-out rate is rather high.
So, a government sponsored university that has been established 40 years this year has not truly broken through to be considered 'legitimate' or perhaps 'competitive'; what hope can there be for an online university?
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That's what this game is all about. Normal tv replaced by HD TV replaced by 3D TV. They're shortening the upgrade time with each cycle, and people are happy to pay it. I'm currently still using a CRT with a scart cable - and while I would be upgrading in the near future, I suppose I'll have to wait until I see how this pans out.
I would at least have expected them to wait until 3D TVs have been slurped up - this connector change will disrupt the cydle and hurt sales.
On the other hand, I truly wish that this was all genuine. LAN sockets in the walls to pass my AV anywhere in the house is, in my opinion, about the perfect future situation, but something tells me that it'll not work here. And what an opportunity to drop drm - except that, with Sony on board, that'll never happen.
It'd be so easy for them to do this right and have it settled for the next 50 years, as all equipment could be made backwards compatible, but I seriously doubt this'll break the 3 year mark. Everyone's locked into HDMI with their AV receivers.
they didn't know what they wanted or needed, and it certainly wasn't our job to figure it out.
Erm, as far as I'm concerned, that's exactly your job. Its what a requirements capture is for. I feel quite offended by this attitude of yours - you're the expert. If I went to an architect and asked for a floating house, it would be his job to tell me that that's not what I really want, and to work with me on something more appropriate, rather taking the money and running away before my wife gets home.
I hope you enjoyed the coke you snorted off hooker's cracks with my tax money.
This is quite clearly a sales pitch - am I the only reader left thinking, 'well so what'?
Its all well and good keeping old computers running (providing the OS is secure enough), but I for one feel that this is neither news for nerds, nor stuff that matters.
And I'm not even clicking the link to vindicate the posting, click-through-wise.
Agreed - if nothing else, I was actually expecting images of the fonts - isn't that the most sensible approach? Loading the page and being auto redirected to the download page is a terrible way for the submitter to give us a 'peek'.
This may seem obvious to some, but I spent an hour or so looking into this phone as my next upgrade last week. It uses CDMA, which is new to me (as a UK consumer), which means that it has no sim card, and instead the phone itself logs onto your network provider - as such, you have no way of importing and using it. There are no stated plans to bring it across the pond :O(
Which is a shame, as it blows the current android crop available in the UK out of the water.
Who the fuck is Glenn Beck?
Hell, I live in the UK and was hit by this (HARD) by two ISPs before I moved to VirginMedia, who just throttle me between 4pm and 11pm, but let me download what I want (I've hit over 500Gb this month after a failed RAID array).
Oft-times I'll know exactly what I'm looking for, or even the exact site I want to go to, and going via google is often faster than remembering/typing a URL. I know my search result will be top, as I know what to search for. This is far more hit and miss with Bing.
This does change over time, however. It used to be the case that if I wanted a review on a new pair of speakers or a motherboard or whatnot, I could google the product with the word review in the search, such as "b&w 683 review". Whilst for that particular search you'll find some good reviews do pop up first, for a lot of products its an ordeal trying to find decent reviews. Often it'll be a sales page where you can drop your own review, and more often that not they're blank. Its becoming more and more difficult to search for professional reviews, so for many products I go direct to specialist review sites, such as tomshardware for computer stuff.
I seem to have run a little off topic, but my point is that all of this is far more difficult to accomplish with Bing than it is with google, so I'm not surprised they're losing money - they've entered a marketplace with an inferior product (at least for the casual home user), and that's rarely a profitable move.
Would this get around the ruling?
That looks like a party just waiting to happen.
I'm on virgin, 10Mb plan (downloading hundreds of gigs per month). I could get faster, but to be honest I don't think it'd do much good. I suppose I generally wait about 30mins for a movie to download, and that could be 3 minutes @ 100Mbps, but what the hay. Anything that's time critical is with me quickly enough, as its usually small, so I haven't upgraded. 100Mbps would be nice, but not if it's expensive.
As to complaints about the service, you should move to my area. On the 10Mbps plan, my ftp runs at 1.2MB/s for the majority of the time. If you get a calculator out, I think you'll find that that's pretty much what they're advertising. It typically drops to 300KB/s between the hours of 4pm and 9pm, but that's in their ToS, and I max the throttle at all other times, near enough.
All in all I would say that Virgin give me exactly what I pay for, and their customer service (while outsourced to india) is actually surprisingly good.
Big thumbs up for this.
I read a very good article last night, seems like its right up your street: here.
Its a comparison of different streaming options in a house that's not wired up to your specifications. Page 8 shows that with coax you should be able to get 68Mbps streaming video via UDP, which should be more than sufficient for your streaming needs. The only thing is that you'll have to buy a coax/ethernet adaptor. Not cheap, but a whole lot easier than rewiring.
they survive longer due to their husbands working their fannies into an early grave.
+1 Funny. In Britain 'fanny' means 'pussy', not arse as it does in america, and as such this sentence reads very differently :O)
Should we combine these attacks together, or should we just combine these attacks?
Apologies. I thought your quote contained the amendment - I agree with you.
Are you so sure its wrong? It may be slightly ambiguous, but the meaning of the sentence could be that you require both.
"For a bike to be a bike, the minimum configuration is two wheels". What's wrong with this sentence? Perhaps the mainframe requires both?
Okay sorry for the double post, but can someone tell me how to format my posts properly? I can't find any ttips, and they all look like that beast ^^^ :O(
I couldn't agree more. I'm into the current BloodBowl computer game they released in June for the PC, and over the past couple of months have seen them issue takedown notices to various bloodbowl fan websites. While obviously this isn't a great thing, I grudgingly have to support what they're doing - stopping people using their trademark, BloodBowl. As the takedown notice says, if they have a history of ignoring their trademark's infringement, than when it really _does_ matter, they don't have a legal leg to stand on. Here's the takedown for talkbloodbowl.com (and fumbbl just had a similar one): "Thank you for your email concerning the website www.talkbloodbowl.com. We understand that you are unhappy about the decision by the people running www.talkbloodbowl.com to shut their site down. The Blood Bowl community is important to Games Workshop and we are also disappointed that they have felt it necessary to take such a step. Unfortunately, that decision is entirely one for them and we can have no influence over what action they choose to take. Unlike many companies, Games Workshop usually only stops people from using our intellectual property if we must do so in order to protect it (provided that use is by and for hobbyists). For example, the law requires us to protect our trademarks in certain ways – and if we do not – we might lose them. As you can imagine, we do not want to lose our trademarks as we would no longer be able to create the great miniatures and table top hobby wargames that we pride ourselves on. ‘Blood Bowl’ is a trademark that belongs to Games Workshop. Therefore the use of it by third parties, without licence, is unlawful and an infringement of Games Workshop’s rights. Guidance has been available for our fans for many years in our Intellectual Property Policy that can be found on the legal pages of our website http://legal.games-workshop.com/ This sets out how our hobbyists can use our intellectual property in such a way that Games Workshop is not likely to object. Within the policy there are some simple rules, such as: 1) Do not mention any Games Workshop Trademarks, such as “Blood Bowl” or “Warhammer” in your URL or league name; and 2) Do not screenscrape any content from official websites. There are also a number of more general guidelines, setting out the spirit of the policy. If a fan follows the policy in spirit and letter, then it is highly unlikely that Games Workshop will take any action to prevent their use of Games Workshop’s IP. Games Workshop has not specifically targeted any particular website but instead has taken a consistent approach to all sites that we are aware of that are using our ‘Blood Bowl’ trademark without our permission. We have written to the owners or administrators of these sites detailing our concerns. In our letters, we gave the parties infringing our rights various options as to how they could address our concerns. At no time did Games Workshop demand that any website close down. We trust that this clarifies the situation."
I like this, and see pressure sensitive keyboards being predominant in the not too distant future, based primarily upon the supplemental embedded video at the bottom of the linked page. All of the proposed uses, from deleting word at a time, to recognising typos, to movement in games, I can't see any argument against. Its just a genuinely innovative device. A lot of the competition entries are rather useless as they stand, but go a long way to show the potential of the platform. One problem I've always had with PC gaming is not being able to play driving games properly without a controller, as on/off left/right is useless. I suppose this would solve that problem, as I'd now have an analogue keyboard. As to the typing/password recognition, of course it would have teething problems en route to full user acceptance, but all of the criticism levelled so far is easily surmountable. Someone loses a hand, or their typing changes - easy! As per online banking and whatnot, the user can answer a few predefined questions (independent of typing style) and reset the memory. A brute force attack could be prevented by limiting the number of attempts. Okay, so a couple of problems would always be present, such as typing with a coffee in hand or logging in to your girlfriends facebook, but overall I am thrilled by the idea, enough to make my second /. post ever, and am very much looking forward to owning one, providing they don't come with optimus maximus pricetags.
You can take The Open University in britain as an example of why I don't believe this is ever going to work. "The Open University is the distance learning university founded and funded by the UK Government." So, you would imagine a degree from here carries at least some weight in academics and business, but unfortunately that's not the case. Perhaps not so bad as the example of University of Phoenix above, as some professional bodies do accept their legitimacy, it is a sad fact that OU degrees are sneered upon in britain today. This is likely due to the high percentage of students who sit courses "for personal interest", i.e. for fun, instead of as part of their professional career. As such, I imagine the drop-out rate is rather high. So, a government sponsored university that has been established 40 years this year has not truly broken through to be considered 'legitimate' or perhaps 'competitive'; what hope can there be for an online university?